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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1875
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1They have recently sent forth a new kind of modern antique in Vienna, which is causing a revolution in the Mirecourt manufacture, and is more deceptive than the stereotyped article which has so long been in the market. It has the appearance of having been boiled in some mixture of acids, giving it the aged look of the genuine thing to the inexperienced eye. It is blackened and charred in the most merciless manner, and sends forth a smell of a most disagreeable nature. The whole thing is over-done, and the results in point of tone are far more disastrous than in the common French copies.
3In the following list of French makers will be found those generally known, and their leading characteristics.
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